Welcome to the Red House
Our work seeks to shape a new learning paradigm that expands high-impact practices at Georgetown University, confronts systemic injustice, improves wellbeing and healing, while controlling the rising costs of a transformative education.
We are
Engaging in values-driven design and testing of new models.
Managing a portfolio of experimental courses.
Supporting transformation with campus partners through the Baker Trust.
There is no racial justice without equity in education. Without systemic innovation, it is impossible to transform educational systems to make equity possible. We commit to being more successful at modeling and enacting change – for our own staff, for our Georgetown community, and for our colleagues and collaborators across the educational landscape.
Our Model for Innovation and Change
Over many years we have developed an approach to innovation in a traditional university that takes on three questions at the same time:
How do you make it possible for new ideas to emerge in a traditional university?
How do you develop and scale the best ideas?
How do you ensure that the best new ideas have transformational impact?
The Baker Trust for Transformative Learning makes strategic investments in innovation that advance the changing paradigm for learning. Investments target research, design, implementation, and scaling of new approaches to developing the skills, mindsets, and values necessary for graduates to take on the world’s greatest problems and shape a more just world.
The Baker Trust invests in a values-driven portfolio of prototypes and pilots, within and across the Schools, intended to catalyze innovation, cross-silo collaboration, and long-term structural change that advances an equitable and financially sustainable transformative education.
The Baker Trust sits under the Office of the Provost and is managed and supported through the Red House and the Designing the Future(s) of the University Initiative, which operate as an educational R&D unit for Georgetown.
News & Events
Dinner Series with Randall Amster
The Red House is welcoming students to join us for the first dinner conversation in our series on Wednesday, April 24th from 5:00-6:30PM. The dinner series with different faculty members and a focus on interdisciplinarity will
Red House Staff Attend PHENND Conference
On February 23rd, 2024, Red House team members Susannah McGowan, Tad Howard, Randy Bass, and Ijeoma Njaka gave a plenary workshop at the Philadelphia Higher Education Network for Neighborhood Development (PHENND) conference at Rutgers-Camden. PHENND is
Georgetown to host regional Hearth Summit in September 2024
Cura Georgetown and The Red House are proud to announce that we are co-organizing a regional HEARTH summit in September 2024. Building on the success of The Wellbeing Project’s first-ever global summit, the regional Hearth Summits mark
